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in reply to Using the Large Hadron Collider is likely to produce ...

Dunno about others, but the idea of a large, phallic object being referred to as the Large Hardon Collider still has me hiding under the blanket, whimping in fear.

Stop saying 'script'. Stop saying 'line-noise'.
We have nothing to lose but our metaphors.

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Re^2: Using the Large Hadron Collider is likely to produce ...
by swampyankee (Parson) on Oct 05, 2008 at 00:31 UTC

    Umh, the isn't the LHC toroidal? I thought that phallic objects generally didn't resemble attenuated doughnoughts.


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      No, most of them do. It seems that just the phallic objects that you have encountered don't resemble doughnoughts :P

      I'm so adjective, I verb nouns!

      chomp; # nom nom nom

        I'd be interested to see a phallic doughnut/doughnought or donut.

        Perhaps you could enlighten me, surely you wouldn't know if you were coming or going!

        I don't think I want to be enlightened on that score, although I'm sure that there is a bakery in Greenwich (The) Village selling phallic doughnuts. I never found the need to shop for anatomical baked goods, so I didn't look


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